Aussie mum defends her C-section in brutally honest Instagram post

Australian mum and blogger Olivia White has hit out at critics who claim having a C-section is the "easy way out" with a blunt description of the toll the operation has taken on her body.

In a playful post to her Instagram account last week, Ms White shared a photo of her belly post-operation, comparing the experience to being "gutted like a shark".

"This is what you really look like a few hours post C-section," she wrote in the caption.

"To anyone who thinks it's the easy way out, well try having a six-inch gash in your abdomen like a gutted shark who had the body parts of the surfer it ate retrieved!

"Worst of all you'll feel as if you'll spend your entire life wearing nanna knickers up around your waist because the thought of anything settling in the canyon between your gut and pubic region is the stuff nightmares are made of."